Percy Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2024
- Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Lincolnshire Posy (1937) with score
0:00 - I. Lisbon
1:31 - II. Horkstow Grange
4:29 - III. Rufford Park Poachers (Version B)
9:12 - IV. The Brisk Young Sailor
10:52 - V. Lord Melbourne
14:19 - VI. The Lost Lady Found
United States Air Force Band (directed by Lowell E. Graham)
Sight read this about 37 years ago. Still trying to figure out where we're at.
😂😂😂
Good luck during Movement 3.
Yeah 3 and 5 were a bit tricky.
funny
You mean from 34 years ago, you are still trying? MAN, THAT'S PERSISTENCE. Kudos!
You know, for a guy who played piano naked in the dark, Grainger wrote some dang good music!
Yeah he practice self-flagellation
I never heard of this. And then I looked it up. Kind of regretting it.
@@jacobbass6226 The truth will set you free!
graeme011 it apparently set him free too.
Arranged good music, too.
Homie Grainger was sitting there with Lord Melbourne trying to figure out time signatures and he was finally like "how about no time signature, and how about 1 eight note there, and how about add an extra and onto that 2/4 bar".
2/4 and 1/2 like 5/8 with accents (or accents rule at the beginning) wouldn't mess heads as much.
@@pilipilipilipilipili True. But Grainger was never one to follow conventions in his notation.
I remember hearing a story that grainger once wrote a column about how the concept of rhythm was absurd and should be abolished. If i remember correctly, the publication was not happy with that take and the had to get one of his much more highly respect russian contemporaries (i cant quite remember who) to come in and write a column dismantling graingers argument the very next week.
He gave up trying to put a time signature to the town drunk, a war vet.
there‘s 2 1/2 / 4 time in my score in band :|
One of my music teachers is quite an old man, and his father was a close friend of Percy Grainger's. Once in our school band we played a simplified arrangement of the lost lady found, and he told us a story. One day when he was a young child, Grainger came to stay with his family for just a few days. He remembers one morning during that time, that his mother woke him up very early in the morning, before the sun had even begun to rise, and told him that he would want to come downstairs. He went downstairs and found Grainger practicing on the piano they had in their living room. He says he remembers that as one of his earliest musical memories: the amazing opportunity of getting to watch a famous composer practice up close, firsthand, in his living room.
Who was your music teacher's father? Just curious! Thank you!
How wonderful.
Wow
What an amazing story! Do you have others? We played Granger all throughout middle school and high school in the 90's, and I'd always get giddy when we did because he wrote such full-featured clarinet and bass clarinet parts, and I always enjoyed the sway between being a bouncy instrument to a sweeping choral reed voice counterpart to a stoic brass melody, or the rising tension in a bevvy of ostinato arpeggios underpinning a swirl of upward momentum leading to a big fanfare crash...I could just go on and on, but I've never heard of anyone that KNEW him personally! I'd love to hear any more stories of the man if you have any to share.
Loved that story!
"Louden a bit by bit all you can"
This is what we need in life
maybe his plot is to turn english phrases into the regular text to put in music, so instead of things like "andante cantabile" you write "kinda slow but make it smooth, like a voice"
Izhaan Ahmed, Grainger was a bit of a weird racist who didn't want to use non-Anglo-Saxon words. He made up a whole lot of funny new words, some of which are listed here: strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/a-percy-grainger-glossary/. However it's clear he wasn't a linguist since many of those words actually have French roots.
good article. interesting subject to cover
No Italian here if you know what I mean
You can see his Britishness in the things he writes in his music
This guy was a bit ahead of this time, wasn't he?
not even, hes like in his own entire sort of bubble separate from everything else
I still remember the second day of rehearsals back in the early 2000's when I was in college right at @9:42 when the woodwinds just blew everyone away on those runs. Man, they sounded so good, even our director had that "holy sh*t!" look on his face, clearly impressed.
i never noticed that run before. Thanks for pointing it out!
My memory of it is spending hours of high school band rehearsals sitting there with my trombone and nothing to do because we’ve been helping the woodwinds practice these runs.
Funny how a piece of music can bring you back to the exact moment you played it, 1st movement will always bring me to tears. Thanks for the upload
You were also traumatized by trying to play this? I thought I was the only one, huh.
Me too
completely agree
Horkstow Grange actually makes me really nostalgic
Totally. I go back instantly to college 30+ yrs ago, wind ensemble, and being mesmerized by Lost lady Found. ALTHOUGH - and perhaps I'm wrong here, I always thought Grainger ended the piece on a D Major, like a classic Picardy 3rd, however here I'm hearing the work end on a min 6 chord. Is there an alternate version that ends on the tonic major?
Grainger is quite possibly one of my favorite composers, I love playing his pieces. His pieces make me tear up, give me chills, etc. I think Australian Up Country Tune is my favorite. I remember when we played this in my university wind ensemble, I think I tripled on 1st Bb Clarinet, Eb Clarinet, and Alto Clarinet... lol
0:05 Lisbon/ Dublin Bay
1:32 Harkstow Grange
4:30 Rufford Park Poachers
9:12 The Brisk Young Sailor
10:52 Lord Melbourne
14:20 The Lost Lady Found
Thanks!
*Horkstow
Brilliant. Thanks!
@@matthew22carlson it literally says harkstow...
@@matthew22carlson dude literally look at it in the video. I've played this piece before. On the original sheet music and the score it says Harkstow
As a contrabass clarinet player, I’m living for the bass clarinet parts. The recognition is incredible!
Eyy another contrabass player! Yay!
Grainger loved his clarinets he loved wins too. Yeah great fat loves for the clarinet. It's kind of a loss instrument these days
Not much of us is there haha...
You’re a contrabass clarinetist ???? Ooooooh!!! I love that instrument so much! Keep shining ya light!! ❤️
Katie King yes! i love it too! really miss playing it since we went into lockdown :((
Grainger certainly knew how to feature the horns. I have played this piece many times, I enjoy playing all of his music.
Which movement is your favourite?
There's nothing more exhausting than playing the bass clarinet in this piece.
Or bari sax, that was a hard task
But oh so much fun, god I miss it😭
Percy Grainger literally lived in the town where I was born in New York (and where my grandparents live), White Plains!! My grandfather worked in an old law office there for several years, and it used to be right next to Grainger's house before it got demolished (Grainger's house is now a historical landmark).
I adore Vaughn Williams and Holst but I don’t think Grainger gets enough credit for how wonderfully inventive his takes on the folk music revival of his time were. There’s so much cleverness and sophistication, but it’s not too clever for its own good, or cold, quite the opposite. Sometimes it reminds me of Britten’s brilliant folk song realizations. I wonder if Britten took any inspiration from him.
Very insightful comment, I would like to keep in touch
In this music there floats a kind of mist suitable for dreams and gentle drifts. A climate of rediscovered peace that we sometimes feel without knowing exactly why during certain summer nights! these artists build a discourse of interiority, of breathing, which knows how to make room for silence.
My brain is melting. Really good music, but what the heck is going on.
Shhhhh! The divine Grainger is speaking to you....listen to him tell all about what wind bands can do.
The literal answer is he made wax recordings of oldsters singing these classic folksongs in all corners of the UK, then set them literally as he heard them melody-wise, which is why so many of these have odd time-signatures to begin with. Then he did what Grainger do in terms of rearranging the furniture.
And the meter reflects the mental state of old guys smashed drunk in the pub, singing him the tunes while inebriated
My first time to hear this... and my, that harmony in the bar at 4:00 is stunning!
I know right 😭😭
indeed
that's a little F7#9, b13 for those scoring at home. :) wonderful how he preserves the Ab in the melody (so-mi-re-do-la) while boosting the harmony with the A nat below. He does the same thing in the next half of the bar, underpinning the Db in the melody with a D nat for a Bb7#9 chord. it's still highly functional, as our ears hear the progression from III, to vi, to ii (in the next bar), but the excitement is ratcheted up.
This might be best recording of Horkstow Grange, no joke. I hear all the instruments super clearly!
Wonderful to see the score of this band music. Grainger was such an imaginative composer!
Thank you so much for posting this masterpiece. This takes me back playing in Wind Bands and especially pieces by Grainger where music convention is thrown out but the pure musicality isn't. His painstaking nature of notating these pieces and then orchestrating in his unique style. Yet the quality of the singer and song is not lost and that ,I believe, was his aim. He saved from obscurity a number of these amazing gems. Bravo! 😃
What's fascinating is he recorded the vocals on wax records and still managed to emulate the same timbre and quality of a voice through instruments.
I don't know why this came up into my recommended but wow, I'm glad it did, seriously beautiful music.
if you like this I highly recommend you check out Gustav Holst's First and Second Suites for military band. you won't be disappointed!
Perfect performance, and I love reading the score along with the music. Thank you!
played this back in 7th grade, gives me nostalgia just listening to this.
Fun fact: Grainger’s mother dressed him in girl’s clothes until age 12. But all kidding aside, his counterpoint skills are right up there with Bach.
This doesn't make me regret playing saxophone as much!
Hey Mirko, No regret - be proud. At least we know our father's name. He was Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax!! There's a word for people who don't know who their father is, but I shan't repeat it. it's considered rude in some circles.
Bravo USAF band on a magnificent performance of my favourite piece for band. A true masterpiece
One has to wonder what Grainger might’ve been able to dream up with modern percussion sounds.
Look up his ‘In a Nutshell Suite’
Natheniel Becken That sums up the answer to their question in a nutshell
Seconding "Nutshell," check out "The Warriors" as well. Grainger used pitched percussion as their own tonal section in both these pieces. He attempted to popularize the use of staff bells in a few of his compositions, although they never really caught on with other composers.
Also make sure to check out his arrangement of Debussy's Pagodes. I just read about it recently myself and have been mesmerized by it for the last several days. Great use of pitched percussion.
Damn, this is an amazing interpretation.
I've had the honor of being conducted by Colonel Graham for an honor band when I was in highschool. It was really special
Grumpy Cat same it fantastic we played Prelude Siciliano and Rondo and his interpretation is on point.
Grumpy cat - I thought the word honor said "horror!". Very different! Never mind!
Such good memories of this piece - trying to play 10 different handbells by myself in the last movement with only two hands. Good times. Best part: 3:58
Your band played the end with handbells? That's awesome! I think they fit the best with the end of the piece out of the "Tuneful Percussion" listed.
@@metroidnerd9001 agreed! When it all came together it sounded so cool. Now that I think about it, it was split between two of us, still quite the challenge.
yes that moment is glorious!
This legit saved me. We didn’t have all the percussion parts in the folder and I only found out today rip. So I was supposed to be playing like almost all of movement 5
Thank you, thank you THANK YOU for whomever put this together!
This is the best band music ever! Oh, second to the Holst Suite
If you're a sax player you are thrilled to get band music. So discriminated against. Especially by the French!
Played this in college. Fell in love with Grainger then! (Charles Ives, too!)
Percy Grainger's extraordinary band piece, Lincolnshire Posy, is so unique and remarkable. fun to see this condensed score to read with the music.
SENSATIONAL! Thank you so much for the score too!
Grainger walked the countryside writing down the music exactly as the melodies were sung to him. As with most vocalists,even today, they took some liberties with the melodies and this is what transpired.Realise that the singers were just common folk and not professional singers.
Percy Grainger:Lincolnshire Posy
1. Lisbon (Matrózdal):Vivace 00:05
2. Horkstow Grange (A fösvény és embere: helyi tragédia):Scorre lentamente
01:31
3. Rufford Park orvvadászok (orvvadász dal):Fluentemente 04:29
4. A lendületes fiatal tengerész (visszatért igazi szerelméhez):Vivace 09:12
5. Lord Melbourne (Háborús dal):Pesante, feroce 10:52
6. Az elveszett hölgy megtalálva (táncdal):Vivace,ma robusto 14:19
Egyesült Államok Légierejének Zenekara
Vezényel:Lowell E. Graham
oh the memories, this one takes me back. never loved the last movement but wow what a piece. beautiful harmonies
as a pianist/violinist i'm not very familiar with the band repertoire but this is absolutely beautiful
Grainger wrote some amazing works for orchestra. In a nutshell is one of my favorites.
My favorite movement is probably Horkstow Grange, but it’s tough. This whole thing is wonderful from beginning to end.
Sublime. As great as (almost) anything out there.
Amazing performances of Graingers masterpiece. U S air force band, and mr Graham is in world class. How ever, People a little more than avarge interst, shuld lissen to Fennell and The Cleveland Symphonic Winds. IT is a very different interpretation of "mighty posy" .
mandatory for enthusiasts.(Telarc - DG-10050)
love jamming out to this especially movement 1
as beautiful as movement 5 is, it’s pure hell to play
Omg. Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this. I have been looking for a condensed score for the longest time and haven't been able to find one, (IMSLP hasn't had it for years, despite it being near public domain if I recall correctly) so this is a great find! Thank you so much again for this. :)
This copy was sufficient enough for my needs, and I absolutely appreciate it! A better copy is always a plus, though. :)
Chester by Schuman would be an awesome find too, but that piece is more recent, so it probably won't be freely available for a while.
There seems to be a condensed score on IMSLP now, but I don't know if it's the same score used in the video.
Excellent! The quality on IMSLP is much higher than the one I used in this video.
It's in public domain now!
bass clarinet finally plays in bass clef? thank god man
Good dynamic contrasts and phrasing in this version-very enjoyable...
The Horkstow Grange movement is very familiar to me. A lot of times, our band would warm up on that one (more simplified version), and it was always one of my favorites. I had no idea it was from this. But the chords are so much nicer in this one.
Louden lots is the best phrase I’ve ever heard
slacken
I had to call my old band teacher these songs were burning I'm my skull! I didn't remember the name till I talked to him.
So many gorgious brass chords. Short but oh so sweet!
danke für Sendung
ONE OF MY FAVORITE BAND PIECES IN THE 1970 S
I was also in music school in the 70's. So nice to read this. Seems like "yesterday" but really isn't, is it? Grainger is my favorite composer...hands down. I am a professional musician and his pieces are the only ones to make me cry more than once.
Lost lady found is very similar to green bushes. Great music.
Great memories of playing this in Symphonic Band.
I used this video to teach myself Lord Melbourne on the piano. Would recommend!
Im working on a Wind Quintet arrangement of Lincolnshire Posy. Would be useful in my study of this piece! thanks!
I would LOVE to conduct this someday!!!
Imagine being a euphonium trying to count rests and then 12 french horns come in at 0:42
All you have to do is look at the conductor and count like a madman.
“Oh I mean I can count this, it’s a bit chaotic bu- ok WHAT THE FUCK”
I played this at all eastern honor band! Love it!
This piece is quite difficult, especially for the flute/picc - the Young Brisk Sailor part has those sixteenth triplets that arpeggio up and down the scale and the movement with its 2½ time signatures. As a picc player in this piece in college, I was having quite a challenging time with those two movements..lol...
Beautiful
I played alto clarinet on the second arrangement. Also played first car not on the third and fourth arrangement. Those were good days. This song still got stuck in my head 15 years later.
Wow, alto clarinet!
We are performing three movements of this for our first concert of the semester and the other three for our spring concert in our wind ensemble. Let me tell you. Counting in this and a piece called Nitro(amazing piece) by Frank ticheli is just bannanas
Sooo we are playing this at my high school this year and I freakin love this piece. We are only playing movements 1,2,4 and 6 for uil. I am the only one of the baritone part and it makes me want to die sometimes lol. But I enjoy this masterpiece so much. Movement 5 is my favorite tbh!(:
lol it's Madelyn 4th movement baritone solo is fun
Finally a piece were transposing instruments play in the actual treble clef!!!! UAU
Former oboe player here. I still want to fight Percy Granger for that dumbass solo in the third movement (and about a hundred other things). The Brisk Young Sailor is a bop though
Percy's all, "That's not a time signature.... ........ ... ... Now THAT'S a time signature."
I'm glad that the proper version of movement 3 was done. It's just not the same with the alternate version. Of course, I'm a bassoonist and have played lead on this several times.
Played an arrangement of Harkstow Grange back in 7th grade (an easier arrangement). It's still one of my favorite pieces of music even now 5 years later.
When I played this in college, the 3rd mvmt began at concert C and no sop sax (flugelhorn).
Grainger wrote two versions for some movements
Mom, can we have a reduction of the score?
We have a reduction at home, sweetie.
This.
My band hates this, but I really want to play it.
I played this when I was 17 playing contrabass clarinet
Movement 3 and 5 are very underrated ngl, my favorites are movements 1 & 3 though and the 2 as a close second. I love them all though.
This is real good, can't lie.
Love the passing notes!
YES THIS IS FANTASTIC
we sight read this today… I still have no idea where we are
When I played this in my band, the music notation was hilarious. There was one that said, for the soprano que "if your Band is lacking in the soprano sax then play this"
However you define the word masterpiece this is surely one of them and is especially brilliant harmonically. Also the Brisk Young Sailor movement has to be the best depiction of premature ejaculation in music (though I admit they're probably not many of them.)
peter owen Daphnis et Chloé, after the Pantomime
I had a Lhasa Opso that I named Daphnis Ann Chloe. Yep...I'm a music nerd. To see a band play the complete Posy well is a real treat.
The Pantomime is a flirt between the two and after that they have sex including a premature ejaculation, is what I meant
Just listened and you're absolutely right. Perhaps we should compile a "Music Lover's Guide to .......
I'm sorry, what??? How have I never heard about this?
11:24 WHAT THE ACTUAL CRUD ARE THOSE TIME SIGNATURES????
My favorite movements are 2 and 3.
This is the audition song for my schools wind ensemble and I think that this will be a challenge that it will be hard
Nice Music!
Why is it that often in his score instead of specifying precisely the instruments (clarinets, flutes, bassoons, saxophones, trombones, trumpets, etc.) he specifies merely groups of instruments (low reeds, brass, woodwinds, etc.)?
Condensed scores are like musical shorthand.
Thanks so much for putting this together. It was my great honor to play this piece in state honor band when I was young. As I remember we closed with Bernstein’s Candide overture! How lucky can a young musician get?
Bb clarinets jamming to the 3rd movement while the alto and Eb clarinets are suffering :D
but we get to suffer plenty later
as a 1st Bb clarinet mvt 4 makes me want to drop out of music school😭
He perished when I was 1 year old. This guy definately scored for sax, because they were well established by 1937. Percy was quite a case: a vegetarian who despised vegetables and would never play Country Gardens on request. I guess he wanted people to request Lincolnshire Posy and other works instead.
I played 3rd trumpet on this piece in high school....most boring semester ever (there is only about 5 minutes of playing in the entire piece) but at least there was good music to listen to
That euphonium solo in mvt 5 sounded like it was played by a British brass band player....but it's an American band!
Me here to help get the feel of my part
Also me what is going on in movement 2 with the time signature changes every other measure and why is my part so short why do I not play for 30 measures in movement 2 what, Whaat, WHHAAAAAAT
I can't see any rall, or pause indicated at the end of bar 11. Why is this bar (and phrase) not being conducted and played 'a tempo' throughout?
Rufford park almost sounds a little holst-esque, if holst was american.
Grainger is Australian.
And the composition is Irish lol
And technically the Americans borrowed from the French
@@Krumpulous And Aaron Copland borrowed from Mexico
Of course it's just me, but I also think The Lost Lady Found to be holst-esque.
Also does this count as prog-classical?
Robert Schumann Quote : Composing something real unique is writing down a melody/set of notes that no one else ever had done before.... ♫♪
This seems like a good group to plug my channel to. Believe it or not, Grainger actually wrote things other than Lincolnshire Posy and "Country Gardens" (sometimes he didn't even use folk-tunes [crazy, almost like a... composer]) 😂 Stuff for voice, orchestra, organ, choir, double choir, piano, harmonium, 2 pianos, 19 pianos, and even arrangements that call for banjos and the like. Check it out!
Haha I’m playing this piece in my high school band this year and I am the only one on the baritone part so I have all the solos😛
Is there a more advancly composed piece of music out there?